trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

[Garrett Cooper]

On Jan 21, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Andrew Gould wrote:

> Background:  The Olympus WS-310M digital voice recorder has a  
> standard USB interface and uses flash memory to store sound files.   
> Unfortunately, this device only records to WMA files.  I was able  
> to view the filesystem on my MacMini without installing any  
> software.  I'm trying to mount it to my FreeBSD system so that I  
> can use ffmpeg to convert the WMA files to a more universally  
> readable format.
>
> Problem:  I am having trouble mounting this device in FreeBSD 6.2.
>
> Here is the related dmesg output:
>
>      umass0: OLYMPUS CORPORATION DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER, rev  
> 1.10/1.00, addr 3
>      da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
>      da0: <OLYMPUS DVR 1.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
>      da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
>      da0: 500MB (256000 2048 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 125C)
>      umass0: at uhub3 port 2 (addr 3) disconnected
>      (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device
>      (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry
>      umass0: detached
>      umass0: OLYMPUS CORPORATION DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER, rev  
> 1.10/1.00, addr 3
>      da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
>      da0: <OLYMPUS DVR 1.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
>      da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
>      da0: 500MB (256000 2048 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 125C)
>
> Here is the output from 'fdisk /dev/da0':
>
>      ******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
>      parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
>      cylinders=125 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)
>
>      parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
>      cylinders=125 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)
>
>      Media sector size is 2048
>      Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
>      Information from DOS bootblock is:
>      The data for partition 1 is:
>      sysid 6 (0x06),(Primary 'big' DOS (>= 32MB))
>     start 117, size 255885 (499 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>              beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 54;
>              end: cyl 499/ head 7/ sector 32
>      The data for partition 2 is:
>      <UNUSED>
>      The data for partition 3 is:
>      <UNUSED>
>      The data for partition 4 is:
>      <UNUSED>
>
> Here is the output from 'ls /dev/da0*':
>
>      /dev/da0        /dev/da0s1
>
> Here is the output of my various attempts at mounting this device  
> as root:
>
> attempt:  mount -tmsdos -orw /dev/da0 /mnt/ws310
> result:     mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument
>
> attempt:  mount -tmsdos -orw /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310
>
> result:     mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument
>
>
> Attempts with '-oro' instead of '-orw' had similar results.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Gould

Try /dev/da0s1.
-Garrett